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102
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32976
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7750
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758

Nigel Heaton publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nigel Heaton sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 818 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Nigel Heaton D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nigel Heaton sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 102 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Nigel Heaton is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine with significant contributions in surgery, hepatology, epidemiology, transplantation, and oncology.

The scientist's work centers on organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, liver disease and transplantation, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, hepatocellular carcinoma treatment and prognosis, organ donation and transplantation, and cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nigel Heaton include Yoh Zen, Wayel Jassem, Andreas Prachalias, Rosa Miquel, and Abid Suddle.

Nigel Heaton has published extensively in leading academic venues. The most frequent publication sources include the Journal of Hepatology, HPB, Transplantation, American Journal of Transplantation, and Liver Transplantation.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Nigel Heaton cover a range of topics related to liver transplantation and outcomes:

  • Hypothermic Machine Perfusion in Liver Transplantation - A Randomized Trial (2021), New England Journal of Medicine
  • A multicenter randomized-controlled trial of hypothermic oxygenated perfusion (HOPE) for human liver grafts before transplantation (2023), Journal of Hepatology
  • Liver transplantation for critically ill cirrhotic patients: Stratifying utility based on pretransplant factors (2020), American Journal of Transplantation
  • A multicentre outcome analysis to define global benchmarks for donation after circulatory death liver transplantation (2021), Journal of Hepatology
  • Utilization of livers donated after circulatory death for transplantation - An international comparison (2023), Journal of Hepatology

Best Publications

  • A randomized trial of normothermic preservation in liver transplantation

    David Nasralla;Constantin C Coussios;Hynek Mergental;M Zeeshan Akhtar

  • Efficacy and safety of valganciclovir vs. oral ganciclovir for prevention of cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ transplant recipients.

    Carlos Paya;Atul Humar;Ed Dominguez;Kenneth Washburn

  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cholangiocarcinoma: an update

    Shahid A Khan;Brian R Davidson;Robert D Goldin;Nigel Heaton

  • De-novo autoimmune hepatitis after liver transplantation

    Nanda Kerkar;Nedim Hadzic;Edward T Davies;Bernard Portmann

  • Liver Transplantation After Ex Vivo Normothermic Machine Preservation: A Phase 1 (First-in-Man) Clinical Trial

    R. Ravikumar;W. Jassem;H. Mergental;N. Heaton

  • Lessons from look-back in acute liver failure? A single centre experience of 3300 patients.

    William Bernal;Anna Hyyrylainen;Amit Gera;Vinod K. Audimoolam

  • Hypothermic Machine Perfusion in Liver Transplantation — A Randomized Trial

    Rianne van Rijn;Ivo J. Schurink;Yvonne de Vries;Aad P. van den Berg

  • Prevalence of the Activating JAK2 Tyrosine Kinase Mutation V617F in the Budd-Chiari Syndrome

    Raj K. Patel;Nicholas C. Lea;Michael A. Heneghan;Nigel B. Westwood

  • Liver Transplantation for Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis: After 20 Years Still the Best Therapeutic Alternative?

    Bo Göran Ericzon;Henryk E. Wilczek;Marie Larsson;Priyantha Wijayatunga

  • Survival of Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Infected Liver Transplant Recipients

    Margaret V. Ragni;Steven H. Belle;KyungAh Im;Guy Neff

  • Hepatocyte transplantation for inherited factor VII deficiency.

    Anil Dhawan;Ragai R. Mitry;Robin D. Hughes;Sharon Lehec

  • The role of mitochondria in ischemia/reperfusion injury.

    Wayel Jassem;Susan V Fuggle;Mohamed Rela;Dicken D H Koo

  • Source and characterization of hepatic macrophages in acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure in humans.

    Charalambos Gustav Antoniades;Charalambos Gustav Antoniades;Alberto Quaglia;Leonie S. Taams;Ragai R. Mitry

  • Patients With Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Have Increased Numbers of Regulatory Immune Cells Expressing the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase MERTK

    Christine Bernsmeier;Oltin T. Pop;Arjuna Singanayagam;Evangelos Triantafyllou;Evangelos Triantafyllou

  • Absence of Cytomegalovirus-Resistance Mutations after Valganciclovir Prophylaxis, in a Prospective Multicenter Study of Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients

    Guy Boivin;Nathalie Goyette;Christian Gilbert;Noel Roberts

  • Pharmacodynamics of oral ganciclovir and valganciclovir in solid organ transplant recipients.

    Hugh Wiltshire;Carlos V. Paya;Mark D. Pescovitz;Atul Humar

  • Transmission of systemic transthyretin amyloidosis by means of domino liver transplantation.

    Arie J Stangou;Nigel D Heaton;Philip N Hawkins

  • Diagnostic value and utility of the simplified International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group (IAIHG) criteria in acute and chronic liver disease.

    Andrew D. Yeoman;Rachel H. Westbrook;Thawab Al-Chalabi;Ivana Carey

  • Use and outcome of liver transplantation in acetaminophen‐induced acute liver failure

    William Bernal;Julia Wendon;Mohamed Rela;Nigel Heaton

  • Prevalence of the Activating JAK2 Tyrosine Kinase Mutation V617F in the Budd-Chiari Syndrome.

    Raj K. Patel;Nicholas Lea;Michael A. Heneghan;Nigel Westwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Anil Dhawan
Anil Dhawan King's College London
John O'Grady
John O'Grady King's College London
Julia Wendon
Julia Wendon King's College London
Giorgina Mieli-Vergani
Giorgina Mieli-Vergani King's College London
Bernard Portmann
Bernard Portmann King's College London
Roger Williams
Roger Williams Foundation for Liver Research
Yoh Zen
Yoh Zen King's College London
Yun Ma
Yun Ma King's College London
Ghulam J. Mufti
Ghulam J. Mufti King's College London
Diego Vergani
Diego Vergani King's College London

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